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Super El Niño & Hurricane Maria
At 18:09 · chapter starts 13:00
Andrew reads a real NOAA bulletin: forecasters give 2-in-3 odds of a historically intense Super El Niño peaking in winter 2026–2027, with the jet stream funneling storms directly into Southern California. This sparks a genuine science tangent on cloud overseeding — the technique of injecting excessive silver iodide particles into storm clouds to create water droplets too small to fall as rain. Andrew's take on long-term ecological consequences: the next generation can sort it out. The episode then moves into sponsor territory, with Bobby and Andrew delivering reads for NOCD — the world's leading OCD treatment provider offering virtual ERP therapy covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans — and Mountain Dew, whose American Dew limited-edition packaging they enthusiastically celebrate ahead of America's 250th birthday and the Fourth of July.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center puts 2-in-3 odds on this Super El Niño becoming historically intense, peaking this winter and funneling relentless storms into Southern California. Andrew Santino's proposed solution: cloud seeding in reverse, flooding the clouds with silver iodide so the droplets are too tiny to fall as rain — consequences to be sorted out by the next generation.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center estimated a 2-in-3 chance that the developing Super El Niño event will become historically intense, peaking in winter 2026–2027.
